Take a Break, Driver 8
11" x 15", watercolour, 1998
This painting has a lot going on for such a small piece: I wanted to play with flat negative space, so I made the chair white and only included the model's shadow; the matrix reappears; there are art nouveau motifs lifted from
Alphonse Mucha; there's actually a bit of a narrative relating to the title; and the jeans are quite nicely rendered.
The title is from the song "Driver 8" by
R.E.M. from their 1985 album
Fables of the Reconstruction (also known as
Reconstruction of the Fables).
This painting was part of
Operation: Waterstorm.
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